Menomonee Falls Blockbuster Video will close

The Blockbuster Video store on W. Appleton Ave. in Menomonee Falls will close April 10, according to a staffer at the store. A liquidation sale is underway now.

The closing will be one of 182 that the bankrupt video rental company has announced for this year, according to an Associated Press report. Blockbuster has closed about 1,000 stores in the past two years, including many in Wisconsin.

The company doesn't announce to the media the specific locations to be closed. If you know of a current closing sale in your neighborhood that you would like to share, please post a comment.

Thanks to the reader who alerted me to the Appleton Ave. closing. Here is a link to a post I wrote about Blockbuster last year.

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